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...control in the earliest minutes. While an unseen saxophonist plays, tableaus of conflict are played out on the stage. A young man (Kevin Crockett) fights with his preacher father (Tyrone Bean); a preposterous, grade-schooler's version of a prostitute (Melanie Futorian) fights with her john (Dwight Hart). Meanwhile, incredibly realistic-looking homeless people (Nick Linski and Tania Guimond), complete with filthy hair and that unsettling, rocking motion of the mentally disturbed, drift through the audience, with cups out for money...
...this is a shame given the quality of Robinson's musical compositions and the unmistakable talents of the band, formed by Robinson himself on saxophone, Kevin Crockett on guitar and Dwight Hart on drums. It would be much more enjoyable -- and sensible -- to hear the trio play for an hour without the interference of the play's pseudo-narrative and the ridiculous fumbling of the weak cast, especially the offensive Miss Futorian in an inane cameo as a white store owner who launches inexplicable tirades against the black band members...
...JACKY TERRASSON Jacky Terrasson (Blue Note). Seated at the piano, this 30-year-old Parisian import doesn't just play a song; he seizes it, takes it through his own looking glass and refracts it in ways that squeeze fresh thrills out of old Rodgers and Hart and Cole Porter jazz standards. Terrasson's debut served notice that here is a star in the making...
...This is the one place in the world where you can do this," says the still boyish Gardner, who was first elected secretary of state in 1976 at the age of 28. He keeps a scrapbook of all the candidates, containing pictures of himself posing with everyone from Gary Hart (who in 1984 came with a plastic bag filled with a thousand $1 bills) to Georgiana Doerschuck, an elegant widow in a pink Chanel suit who wants to require mothers to stay home with their children. "The little guy who doesn't have a lot of money can still come...
...ruled out a run, but says he likes his new private life as an author and consultant and thinks Bradley would be "perfect." Tsongas has been speaking around the country for his anti-budget deficit Concord Coalition, but says his recurrent bouts with lymphoma have all but disqualified him. Hart has vast experience in presidential campaigns but little of it has been good; this year he practically acknowledged the problem by turning down the chance to run for the Senate. The others are barely known outside their states...